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... observations , including our examination of Arnold's use of his criteria of high seriousness and the grand style outside ... observed that Chaucer's couplet was admirable for story - tell- ing , but " not of the epic pitch . " And so he ...
... observations , including our examination of Arnold's use of his criteria of high seriousness and the grand style outside ... observed that Chaucer's couplet was admirable for story - tell- ing , but " not of the epic pitch . " And so he ...
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... observation that for Arnold , “ a poem ' conceived in the soul ' suggests a poem conceived in spiritual pain " ; that ... observed , the touchstones " deal in pain . " The pass- ages which have been selected as examples of the greatest ...
... observation that for Arnold , “ a poem ' conceived in the soul ' suggests a poem conceived in spiritual pain " ; that ... observed , the touchstones " deal in pain . " The pass- ages which have been selected as examples of the greatest ...
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... observed , " is the state of mind ; and the only way to arrive at this meaning is to examine our own minds as we read . " The experience of the individual may be fallible , he adds , “ but in the last resort it is all he can trust ...
... observed , " is the state of mind ; and the only way to arrive at this meaning is to examine our own minds as we read . " The experience of the individual may be fallible , he adds , “ but in the last resort it is all he can trust ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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